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Summary

This book provides the first introductory treatment of the design, development, and evaluation processes central to Green Chemistry. A comprehensive textbook, it takes a broad view of the subject and integrates a wide variety of approaches. Topics include alternative feedstocks, environmentally benign syntheses, the design of safer chemical products, new reaction conditions, alternative solvents and catalyst development, and the use of biosynthesis and biomimetic principles. It introduces new evaluation processes that encompass the complete health and environmental impact of a synthesis, from the choice of starting materials to the final product. Throughout, the text provides specific examples which compare the new methods with classical ones.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1

(10)

The current status of chemistry and the environment

1

(1)

Evolution of the environmental movement

2

(7)

Public awareness

2

(4)

`Dilution is the solution to pollution'

6

(1)

Waste treatment and abatement through command and control

6

(1)

Pollution prevention

7

(1)

Green chemistry

8

(1)

The role of chemists

9

(2)

What is green chemistry?

11

(10)

Definition

11

(1)

Why is this new area of chemistry getting so much attention?

12

(1)

Why should chemists pursue the goals of green chemistry?

13

(3)

The root of innovation

16

(1)

Limitations/obstacles

16

(5)

Tools of green chemistry

21

(8)

Alternative feedstocks/starting materials

21

(3)

Alternative reagents

24

(1)

Alternative solvents

24

(1)

Alternative product/target molecule

25

(1)

Process analytical chemistry

26

(1)

Alternative catalysts

27

(2)

Principles of green chemistry

29

(28)

It is better to prevent waste than to treat or clean up waste after it is formed

29

(4)

Synthetic methods should be designed to maximize the incorporation of all materials used in the process into the final product

33

(1)

Rearrangements

34

(1)

Addition

34

(1)

Substitution

34

(1)

Elimination

34

(1)

Wherever practicable, synthetic methodologies should be designed to use and generate substances that possess little or no toxicity to human health and the environment

34

(2)

Chemical products should be designed to preserve efficacy of function while reducing toxicity

36

(2)

What is designing safer chemicals?

36

(1)

Why is this now possible?

37

(1)

The use of auxiliary substances (e.g. solvents, separation agents) should be made unnecessary wherever possible and innocuous when used

38

(4)

The general use of auxiliary substances

38

(1)

Concerns for solvents

38

(1)

Environment

39

(1)

Supercritical fluids

40

(1)

Solventless

41

(1)

Aqueous

41

(1)

Immobilized

41

(1)

Energy requirements should be recognized for their environmental and economic impacts and should be minimized

42

(3)

Energy usage by the chemical industry

42

(1)

How energy is used

43

(1)

The need to accelerate reactions with heat

43

(1)

The need to control reactivity through cooling

43

(1)

Separation energy requirements

44

(1)

Microwaves

44

(1)

Sonic

44

(1)

Optimizing the reaction should mean minimizing the energy requirements

44

(1)

A raw material or feedstock should be renewable rather than depleting, wherever technically and economically practicable